7.08.2006

Villaneuva for TJ Ford

For those who are NBA fans and read this (yes, both of you). Here are Bill Simmons thoughts on the recent trade that will bring Villaneuva to Milwaukee in exchange for Ford (from this post):

"Disregard Ford's scary spinal cord problems, that he can't shoot to save his life, that he's a free agent two years earlier than Villanueva, even that he lost crunch-time minutes to Charlie Bell last season. Again, I want you to disregard everything in that sentence. From a pure basketball standpoint, since when is a young point guard worth as much as a young power forward who can rebound and shoot 3s? When has that EVER been the case? How fast did the Bucks' front office say yes to this trade? 0.79 seconds? 1.2 seconds? Did they say, "Hold on, we'll discuss this and call you back in a few hours," then hang up and start pouring champagne on one another? If somebody made this deal in my fantasy league, I would have protested it." - Bill Simmons

1 comment:

michael said...

The only way I can comprehend this trade is that the Rapters are trying to dump salary. But with the #1 draft pick, I can't see that this would be the case. Not only did Charlie Bell outplay Ford, so did M.Williams! Let's just chalk this trade up as the Bucks figuring out a way to forget a horrible first round draft pick (Ford).